Baby's eye

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Hi mums,

I am a first time mum and I was hoping for some advice.

My little boy is 6 months old, when he was around 4/5 months I noticed his left eye was wondering outwards while the right eye stayed straight, my health visitor also caught this on and referred him to an eye doctor.

We went to the eye doctor a few weeks ago and they tried to do a few vision tests with him but also with him being so young it's hard to get a baby to focus, so they said they will bring us back in to do a dilation on his eyes to check the back of his eyes.

We are going on Monday for him to get the dilation drops and I'm a nervous wreck🫣 I just want to know if anyone else's little one had something similar and how did it go?

I am hoping his eye does correct itself, I'd like to know did your baby's eye correct itself too or is this a permanent thing.

Thanks in advance x

It sounds like a squint. Plenty of treatment out there when kiddo is older

He might need glasses. My dd got glasses at 18 months old as she had a squint and was long sighted. She had a lazy left eye where the sight was poorer so had patching treatment too to make the eye work properly

And did her eye straighten itself then?xx
Thanks so much for the advice

Her squint was still present with her glasses so she had a small eye operation around age 4. Her squint is now corrected with glasses on but she still squints when they are off